- Lead
- 39,805
- Total
- 63,398
- vs nation
- D+64.3
Tennessee 29th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 52,399
- Total
- 77,903
- vs nation
- D+62.8
- Lead
- 50,630
- Total
- 72,502
- vs nation
- D+67.7
- Lead
- 55,858
- Total
- 79,441
- vs nation
- D+66.5
- Lead
- 62,039
- Total
- 87,059
- vs nation
- D+64.0
- Lead
- 49,615
- Total
- 76,762
- vs nation
- D+67.1
- Lead
- 43,150
- Total
- 68,118
- vs nation
- D+62.8
- Lead
- 40,521
- Total
- 65,430
- vs nation
- D+53.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+62.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 203,1702024 5-year
- Population density
- 714 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 285 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $47,8632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 20.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 71.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+98.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 33, TN · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 29th State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
99.3%
17,879 votes · D+98.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 96.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
36.0%
13,702 votes · D+25.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 23.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
74,364votes
85.4% of the vote · D+71.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 67,401 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
14,549votes
23.1% of the vote · D+53.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 13,702 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Alton B. Parker1904
+107.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+87.8 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +101.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−34.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+57.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · −41.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 61.8%41,796 | 38.2%25,841 | 67,637 |
| 2020 | D | 63.2%51,434 | 36.8%29,888 | 81,322 |
Tennessee 29th State Senate District sits in the Border South and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 98.7 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 62.8 points.
A population of 203,170, a 20% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,863 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 33 and State Senate District 19.
The state-senate districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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